Engaging students in scientific practices has become an important pedagogical component in STEM education, although its implementation in laboratories is still emerging. This paper uses three types of guiding questions to facilitate scientific practices in introductory and analytical chemistry laboratories. What makes our instructional model…

Maintaining an element of active learning in the post-COVID-19 classroom was a challenge given the absence of traditional in-person interactions. This communication describes how the author used Socrative online polls to help bridge that gap for General Chemistry students in Spring 2020. The Socrative platform provides a versatile way to…

Video learning holds an important place in modern STEM classrooms, but more improvements to the learning experience are needed. In order to introduce active-learning components into assignments, questions are often deployed alongside videos. Unfortunately, many students tend to skip videos entirely and solely answer questions, bypassing valuable…